Misplaced Pages

2004 in British television

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

Overview of the events of 2004 in British television
List of years in British television (table)
+...

This is a list of British television related events from 2004.

Events

January

  • 1 January –
  • 2 January – The BBC cancels the appearance of Coca-Cola sponsorship credits in the music charts in its BBC One Top of the Pops show, after criticism from politicians and health campaigners that it would be promoting junk food and unhealthy drink products to teenagers.
  • 3 January – CD:UK broadcasts its first episode in 16:9 widescreen.
  • 4 January –
    • ITV introduces a sixth weekly episode of Emmerdale airing on Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm. The episode is dropped in 2008 to allow for one-hour episodes on Tuesdays.
    • Debut of the Channel 4 reality series Shattered in which ten contestants are challenged with going without sleep for seven days while their actions are constantly monitored. Over the seven days the ten housemates must undergo daily performance testing and a variety of challenges, while competing for a potential prize fund of £100,000, which is reduced by £1,000 every time a contestant closes their eyes for more than ten seconds. The series, and the remaining prize money of £97,000, is won by Clare Southern on 10 January. It is subsequently branded as "misconceived and dangerous" by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, although Channel 4 says that sleep experts were consulted when putting together the series and that care was taken with the selection of participants.
  • 5 January –
    • BBC One introduces the Massai ident that features nine native Maasai tribesmen dancing in the centre alongside warriors Jumping Up & Down On The Grass.
    • CITV introduces a first weekly episode of The Sleepover Club.
  • 9 January – The BBC announces that the Kilroy talk show will be taken off air while the Corporation investigates negative comments its presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk made about Arabic people in the previous weekend's Sunday Express.
  • 10 January – The first edition of ITV's new Saturday morning children's programme Ministry of Mayhem is broadcast on ITV (later CITV).
  • 13 January – Acclaimed US medical drama Nip/Tuck makes its British television debut on Sky One, attracting an audience of 1 million. The series had been heavily publicised on terrestrial television prior to its broadcast.
  • 15 January – BBC Four begins a six-part adaptation of the Alan Clark Diaries, starring John Hurt and Jenny Agutter. The series concludes on 17 February, and is later repeated on BBC Two.
  • 16 January – Robert Kilroy-Silk resigns as a BBC One talk show host after 17 years following the controversy over comments he made about Arabs.
  • 21 January – CITV airs the premiere of the Japanese-American TV series based on the Sonic the Hedgehog game series, Sonic X.
  • 25 January – The fourth and final series of The Story Makers premieres on CBeebies.
  • 28 January – The Hutton Inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Dr. David Kelly is published. This is taken by most of the press to strongly condemn the BBC's handling of the David Kelly affair and to exonerate the government. The Director-General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, chairman of the Board of Governors, Gavyn Davies, and the journalist at the centre of the controversy, Andrew Gilligan, resign. The UK media in general condemns the report as a whitewash.
  • 29 January – Mark Byford becomes acting Director-General of the BBC following Greg Dyke's resignation.
  • 30 January – ITV's News at Ten ends for a second time, with its replacement, the News at 10:30, launching the following Monday.
  • January – SMG sells its stake in Scottish Radio Holdings to EMAP for £90 million in anticipation of consolidation in the radio market.

February

March

  • 5 March – Major James Hewitt wins Five's Back to Reality.
  • 7 March – An edition of ITV London's The Week is the final London News Network produced programme to be aired.
  • 8 March –
  • 13 March – Charles Ngandwe, performing as Paul Robeson, wins the fifteenth series of Stars in Their Eyes. The edition is also the last to be presented by Matthew Kelly, who had announced the previous day that he would be leaving the series. The role of presenter is taken over by Cat Deeley.
  • 14 March – Channel 4 airs the documentary He's Starsky, I'm Hutch, a programme which prompts actor David Soul to write an open letter to the channel complaining about the way he was portrayed in the film. Soul had co-operated with the documentary, but felt it betrayed because it had concentrated too much on the negative aspects of his life.
  • 18 March – FremantleMedia confirms plans to bring the popular US TV series The Apprentice to the UK.
  • 21 March – "An Apple a Day", an episode of Last of the Summer Wine aired on BBC One in which Billy Hardcastle does not appear.
  • 22 March – Christopher Eccleston is announced as the ninth actor to play The Doctor in Doctor Who. A new 13-part series will be filmed in Cardiff later in the year and make its debut in 2005.
  • 27 March – Following two years, The Story Makers airs the last ever episode.
  • 29 March – BBC Two Controller Jane Root will leave her role to take up a position with the Discovery Network in the United States, it is reported.
  • 31 March – The LWT logo is seen on screen for the final time, having continued to appear as an endcap after the formation of ITV plc.
  • March –
    • Launch of the Islam Channel.
    • A new pay television service on digital terrestrial television, Top Up TV, launches. It offers ten channels, each of which broadcasts on a part-time basis.

April

  • 1 April –
    • It is reported that ITV have axed On the Ball after losing the broadcast rights to screen Premiership highlights. It will disappear from the schedule at the end of the current season.
    • BBC One airs Pat and Mo, an EastEnders spin-off episode featuring Pat Butcher and Mo Harris during the 1950s.
  • 2 April – Michael Grade is appointed as new BBC chairman, taking over the role from Gavyn Davies, who stepped down in the wake of the Hutton Report.
  • 7 April – Former Bad Girls actress Debra Stephenson is to join Coronation Street as new character Frankie Baldwin. She will be seen onscreen from June.
  • 12 April – Magdalen College, Oxford wins the 2003–04 series of University Challenge, beating Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 190–160.
  • 13 April – BBC Two airs the television debut of Hawking, a drama about the life and work of theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, and which stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.
  • 15 April – ITV announce plans for Vote for Me, a Pop Idol-style contest to find a Parliamentary candidate. The series will be presented by Jonathan Maitland.
  • 19 April –
  • 20 April – BBC Two celebrates 40 years on air by broadcasting Happy Birthday BBC Two.
  • 23 April
    • ITV unveils plans for The X Factor, a new music talent contest developed by Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell that will see a panel of judges mentoring acts and competing against each other to have their act chosen as the winner.
    • The last episode of Catchphrase is broadcast on ITV1, after a run of 18 years. The show would be later revived in 2013.
  • 24 April – Computer programmer and quiz expert Pat Gibson becomes the fourth contestant to win the £1 million prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
  • 26 April – Michael Parkinson is to take his Parkinson chat show to ITV after the network poached him from the BBC, it is reported. Parkinson's decision to make the move was also influenced by BBC plans to move his show to a different time slot to make way for the return of Match of the Day. His final BBC show is recorded on 29 April for transmission on 8 May.
  • 27 April – The BBC's Programme Complaints Committee rules that an episode of EastEnders that dealt with the aftermath of the rape of a character was unsuitable for family viewing after it received several complaints from viewers. Complaints about the episode are also later upheld by Ofcom.
  • April – The newly created ITV plc purchases NTL's 35% stake in the ITV News Channel.

May

  • 2 May – Merseybeat actress Leslie Ash's publicist has released a statement saying that she is undergoing treatment in hospital for "an unknown infection", which she is believed to have contracted during an earlier hospital stay. Ash was treated for a broken rib and collapsed lung a few days earlier, which she said had occurred as a result of her falling onto a table during lovemaking with her husband, former footballer Lee Chapman. The infection has left Ash with partial loss of feeling below the waist, but she is said to be responding to treatment and is described as stable. The infection is subsequently diagnosed as Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, a bug that attacks the nervous system. Following her recovery, Ash later speaks about how she almost died from the infection. She is also left requiring the aid of crutches to walk.
  • 7 May – The BBC airs its final episode of The Simpsons, having lost the broadcasting rights to Channel 4 in February 2002. Behind the Laughter is the last episode shown on the BBC. However, broadcasting rights were held until 2006, two years later.
  • 8 May – The final edition of Parkinson to air on BBC One. Guests include The Corrs, Boris Becker, Jamie Cullum and Patrick Kielty.
  • 14 May – BBC Four Controller Roly Keating is appointed to succeed Jane Root as Controller of BBC Two.
  • 15 May –
  • 19 May –
    • A UK version of the popular US TV series The Apprentice is to be produced for the BBC, with Amstrad founder and chairman Sir Alan Sugar as presenter. Applications will be invited for 14 candidates to take part in the programme, which will air in 2005.
    • Martin Bashir is to leave ITV after signing a deal to work for the US ABC network, where he will be a correspondent on its 20/20 news programme.
  • 21 May – Mark Thompson is appointed new Director-General of the BBC.
  • 24 May – Former pop star Billie Piper is announced as the new Doctor Who companion Rose Tyler.
  • 26 May – As part of a government trial to test the feasibility of switching the UK to digital television, Ferryside and Llansteffan, two towns in Carmarthenshire, have been chosen to become the first places in the UK to have their analogue signal switched off. Residents who do not currently have access to digital television will be provided with set-top boxes to enable them to receive a digital signal before the analogue transmitter is turned off later in the year. The government hopes to convert the UK to digital television by 2010.
  • 27 May – Channel 4 airs Paul Greengrass's controversial film Omagh, a graphic portrayal of the events surrounding the Omagh bombing. The film, which took two years to research and make, had previously received a cinema showing that was attended by victims and their families, and later goes on general release.
  • 28 May – Channel 4 airs the final episode of US sitcom Friends, with the episode watched by 8.6 million viewers.
  • 31 May – Long running children's animated television series Peppa Pig premieres on the Nick Jr. Channel and Five.

June

  • 2 June – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter makes its Network television premiere on ITV1.
  • 4 June –
    • BBC News reports that having been axed by BBC America in September 2003, EastEnders will air in the US once again. Episodes will appear on the subscription channel Dish Network, beginning from where BBC America left the series.
    • Kitten Pinder is evicted from the Big Brother UK house, shouting against The Queen and the aristocracy on the way out. She is the first contestant to be evicted by the show's producers rather than through an audience vote after she repeatedly broke the rules during her stay in the house.
  • 5 June – Launch of the BBC's Summer in the Sixties season with a night of classic TV from the 1960s on BBC Four, including episodes of Coronation Street, Z-Cars, Not Only But Also, and Call My Bluff. More 1960s programming is aired on 6 June, with episodes of World in Action and Till Death Us Do Part among the lineup.
  • 7 June – Jane Danson returns to Coronation Street as Leanne Battersby after an absence of four years.
  • 9 June –
  • 11 June – BBC Four begins a re-run of the 1960s classic television series The Prisoner.
  • 12 June–4 July – Euro 2004 is held in Portugal.
  • 14 June – Quiz TV launches in the UK, one of the country's first phone-in quiz channels. Many more launched over the next few years, though Quiz TV itself would close down in 2006.
  • 17 June – The live feed of Big Brother is taken off air as the housemates become aggressive and fight. Security guards are sent in to break up the fight, while Hertfordshire Police ask to view footage of the incident after being contacted by members of the public.
  • 22 June – Mark Thompson takes over as Director-General of the BBC.
  • 23 June – Channel 4 airs the final episode of the US sitcom Frasier.
  • 24 June – The highest rated audience of the year is recorded in the UK as 20.66 million watch England's football match against Portugal in the quarter finals of Euro 2004. Viewing figures for any programme would not reach the 20 million mark again for another eight years, when England faced Italy at Euro 2012.

July

August

  • 6 August – Nadia Almada wins the fifth series of Big Brother.
  • 8 August – EastEnders announce the introduction of a new family, the Millers, who will be seen on screen from September.
  • 11 August – The Daily Mirror reports that a laptop stolen during a burglary at the home of a senior member of the EastEnders production team could lead to several months of major storylines being leaked as the computer contained scripts for upcoming episodes.
  • 12 August – Five signs a deal with Sony Pictures Television to premiere a number of films before they appear on pay-per-view platforms. These include the British television debut of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
  • 15 August – Channel 4 airs the 2000 musical film Coyote Ugly.
  • 19 August – Channel 4's subscription film channel FilmFour announces it will be available to non-subscribers for the first weekend in October. The free weekend will coincide with the beginning of the channel's month long Killer Thrillers season.
  • 31 August –
    • CITV axes in-vision continuity between programmes for a second time. The change is made as part of its production relocation from Birmingham to Manchester.
    • Channel 4 airs Franklin for the very final time

September

October

  • 1 October –
    • As part of its response to the Hutton Inquiry the BBC launches Newswatch, a programme providing a viewer and listener right-to-reply on BBC News's reporting and coverage of news events.
    • BBC Technology, incorporating the BBC's Broadcast Engineering division, is sold to Siemens Business Services for approximately £200m, and a £2bn, 10-year outsourcing contract.
    • ITV talk show host Trisha Goddard will move to Five in 2005 after signing a two-year contract with the broadcaster.
  • 2 October –
  • 4 October –
    • UK television debut of the US version of The Apprentice with Donald Trump on BBC Two.
    • Peppa Pig begins its first broadcast on ABC in Australia.
  • 13 October –
    • The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 announce that audio description, which helps people with sight loss to follow television programmes by describing some of the visual content, is now available through Sky.
    • It is announced that the entire Ferreira family will leave EastEnders in Spring 2005.
  • 21 October – BSkyB launch their free digital satellite TV service that offers viewers a selection of 140 TV and 80 radio channels for a one-off payment of £150.
  • 27 October – British television premiere of the James Bond film Die Another Day on ITV1.
  • 28 October – BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time from Miami, Florida, ahead of the 2004 US presidential election.
  • 30 October – The BBC receives "hundreds of complaints" after reporter Barbara Plett describes herself crying when a frail Yasser Arafat was evacuated to France for medical treatment. Ultimately these complaints are partially upheld by the BBC Governors' Programme Complaints Committee.

November

  • 1 November – The digital television station ITV3 is launched at 9:00 pm, replacing Granada Plus, which ceases broadcasting earlier that day unexpectedly after ITV takes full control of Granada Sky Broadcasting in a deal that will allow for ITV3 to launch on Sky Digital. On the same day, ITV1 unveils a new look, replacing its celebrity-led idents that had been used for just over two years with new idents that feature the ITV1 logo, now made up of individual squares, animating into place on various abstract blue backgrounds.
  • 5 November –
    • Just over a year after his high-profile return to EastEnders, the BBC confirms that Leslie Grantham, who plays Den Watts will leave for a second time.
    • The Simpsons debuts on Channel 4, having won the broadcasting rights from the BBC in February 2002, with the first terrestrial showings of the episodes A Tale of Two Springfields and Treehouse of Horror XI. The network plans to air classic re-runs of the show on weeknights at 6pm with first run episodes airing in a primetime slot on Friday nights.
  • 10 November – British television premiere of the 2002 romantic comedy-drama film About a Boy starring Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz and Nicholas Hoult. The film airs on ITV1 first, before being shown on BBC One on 14 November.
  • 14 November – Five shows the UK terrestrial television premiere of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
  • 15 November – It emerges that Mersey Television boss Phil Redmond wrote to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport offering to buy the publicly funded Channel 4. However, Ofcom says that the channel will not be privatised.
  • 17 November –
    • It is reported that merger talks between Channel 4 and Five have been called off after complexities arose between the public broadcaster Channel 4 and its commercial counterpart.
    • ITV1 airs the British television premiere of The Mummy Returns.
  • 18 November – The video for the new charity single Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 20 airs simultaneously on all five main UK television networks, as well as over twenty satellite and cable stations. This unprecedented broadcast attracts 13.5 million viewers between 5:50 and 6:00pm.
  • 24 November – A report by Ofcom has recommended that elderly and visually impaired people should be given financial assistance to help them buy equipment capable of receiving digital television before the analogue signal is switched off. The report suggests the government may need to set aside £250m–£400m to cover the cost of this.
  • 26 November – Five airs the 2000th episode of its soap Family Affairs.
  • 29 November – The BBC announces that Top of the Pops will move from its Friday evening BBC One slot to BBC Two, where it will air on Sunday evenings.

December

  • 1 December – BBC News reports that the digital switchover trial has begun after Ferryside and Llansteffan had their digital signal switched on a few days earlier. The towns were chosen because they received their signal from a single relay which had poor reception, and residents report that their viewing experience has improved since digital transmission began.
  • 2 December – BBC Two unveils its winter season of programming, which will include a major documentary, Auschwitz, to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day.
  • 4 December – "Thunderbirds Are Go" by Busted is voted the 2004 Record of the Year by ITV viewers.
  • 5 December – ITV1 aired the 4th series of the medical drama series The Royal, with the opening episode watched by 9.43 million viewers.
  • 6 December – Joe Pasquale wins the fourth series of ITV1's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!.
  • 7 December – Netwise, the company that handled text voting for ITV's Record of the Year show says that thousands of customers who were accidentally overcharged will receive refunds after it emerged that some Virgin and T-Mobile users were charged multiple times for a single vote. The company confirms the affected votes did not alter the final result.
  • 11 December – Steve Brookstein wins the first series of The X Factor. On the same evening, actress Jill Halfpenny and dance partner Darren Bennett win the second series of Strictly Come Dancing.
  • 12 December –
  • 24 December –
  • 25 December – The first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone makes its UK television debut on BBC One as part of the channel's Christmas Day lineup.
  • 26 December – Overnight viewing figures suggest BBC One beat ITV in the Christmas Day battle of the ratings, with EastEnders watched by 12.3 million viewers and The Vicar of Dibley achieving an audience of 11.8 million. The television premiere of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was seen by 7.9 million. On ITV, Coronation Street attracted 11.3 million, while the first Midsomer Murders Christmas special received 6.3 million viewers.
  • 27 December – Debut of Pride, Simon Nye's tale about two lion cubs growing up on the African plains, and which is aired on BBC One. The film features the voices of numerous British actors and uses CGI technology to enhance footage of actual lions and other animals.
  • 31 December –
    • New Year's Eve highlights on BBC One include the network television premiere of the psychological thriller Don't Say a Word.
    • After five and a half years, Channel 4 has another rebrand replacing the previous squares idents with objects that transform into the Channel 4 logo.

Unknown

Debuts

BBC One

BBC Two

BBC Three

BBC Four

BBC News 24

CBBC

ITV (Including ITV1, ITV2 and ITV3)

Channel 4

Five

S4C

Sky One

Cartoon Network UK

Nickelodeon UK

  • 6 September – Drake & Josh (6 September 2004–16 September 2007)

Trouble

Nicktoons UK

Boomerang UK

Disney Channel UK

Fox Kids UK/Jetix UK

Pop

Channels

New channels

Date Channel
8 March UKTV People
UKTV People +1
27 September ABC1
1 November ITV3

Defunct channels

Main article: List of former TV channels in the United Kingdom § 2004
Date Channel
16 April TV Travel Shop
TV Travel Shop 2
1 November Plus

Rebranded channels

Date Old Name New Name
8 March UK Bright Ideas UKTV Bright Ideas
UK Drama UKTV Drama
UK Food UKTV Food
UK Food +1 UKTV Food +1
UK Gold UKTV Gold
UK Gold +1 UKTV Gold +1
UK G2 UKTV G2
UK History UKTV History
UK History +1 UKTV History +1
UK Horizons UKTV Documentary
UK Horizons +1 UKTV Documentary +1
UK Style UKTV Style
UK Style +1 UKTV Style +1
27 July Pop Plus Tiny Pop

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

Show Moved from Moved to
What Not to Wear BBC Two BBC One
The Kumars
The Simpsons (UK Terrestrial Rights) Channel 4
24 Sky One
100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd Disney Channel Nickelodeon
Franklin Channel 4 Five
Winx Club FoxBox (USA) S4C (Winx Club Welsh Title: Clwb Winx)
Tots TV Carlton Kids/CITV Block CBeebies and BBC Two
Atomic Betty Cartoon Network CITV on ITV1
Fun Song Factory GMTV CITV
King of the Hill (first run rights) Sky One FX
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog The Children's Channel Pop / Pop Plus
Sonic the Hedgehog The Children's Channel
The Sleepover Club CITV Nickelodeon
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog Channel 4 ITV2
Mummies Alive! Sky One
GMTV 		ITV2
Tiny Pop Pop Tiny Pop

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Continuing television shows

1920s

  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)

1930s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Ending this year

Deaths

Date Name Age Cinematic Credibility
4 January Brian Gibson 59 television director (Horizon, Blue Remembered Hills)
9 January Lyndon Brook 77 actor (I, Claudius, The Avengers, The New Avengers, Crown Court)
27 January Rikki Fulton 79 Scottish actor and comedian, surviving half of Francie and Josie
29 January James Saunders 79 television scriptwriter (Bloomers)
26 February Russell Hunter 79 actor (Callan, The Gaffer)
7 March Michael Stringer 79 television production designer (The Hound of the Baskervilles, Paradise Postponed)
8 March Robin Hunter 74 actor (Up Pompeii, Poirot)
11 March Adrian Ropes 62 Egyptian-born British actor (Emergency – Ward 10, The Avengers, Randall and Hopkirk)
13 March Max Harris 85 television theme composer (Porridge, Open All Hours, The Singing Detective)
18 March Richard Marner 82 Russian-born British actor (Colonel Von Strohm in 'Allo 'Allo!)
28 March Sir Peter Ustinov 82 British actor (Thirteen at Dinner, Dead Man's Folly)
29 March Hubert Gregg 89 BBC broadcaster
30 March Alistair Cooke 95 BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator
13 April Caron Keating 41 television presenter (Blue Peter)
17 April Bruce Boa 73 actor (Fawlty Towers)
19 April Philip Locke 76 actor (Doctor Who)
3 May Anthony Ainley 71 actor (Doctor Who)
14 May Shaun Sutton 85 writer, director, producer and longest-serving Head of Drama at BBC Television.
16 May Harry Elton 74 television producer (Coronation Street)
29 May Jack Rosenthal 72 television scriptwriter (Coronation Street, That Was the Week That Was)
3 June Harold Goodwin 86 actor (Minder, All Creatures Great and Small, That's My Boy)
6 June Judy Campbell 88 actress
18 June Frederick Jaeger 76 German-born British actor (Doctor Who)
19 June Colin McCormack 62 actor (Dixon of Dock Green, EastEnders)
23 June Peter Birrel 68 actor (Frontier in Space, Alexander the Greatest)
1 July Peter Barnes 73 television scriptwriter
3 July John Barron 83 actor (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin)
17 July Pat Roach 67 actor (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, The Last Place on Earth)
28 July Alexei de Keyser 36 television producer
30 July Ali Abbasi 42 Pakistani-born British television presenter
7 August Bernard Levin 75 journalist and broadcaster (That Was the Week That Was)
13 August Peter Woodthorpe 72 actor (Only Fools and Horses, Inspector Morse)
18 August Hugh Manning 83 actor (Emmerdale, Mrs Thursday)
1 September Richard Everitt 71 television producer (Coronation Street)
7 September Fritha Goodey 31 actress
10 September Glyn Owen 76 actor (Emergency – Ward 10, Howards' Way)
29 September Christopher Hancock 76 actor (EastEnders)
6 October Pete McCarthy 51 television presenter
13 October Ivor Wood 72 Children's TV director (The Magic Roundabout, The Herbs, The Wombles, Paddington Bear, Postman Pat etc.)
14 October Sheila Keith 84 actress (Crossroads, The Pallisers)
28 October Graham Roberts 75 actor (Z-Cars)
6 November Fred Dibnah 66 presenter and steeplejack
9 November Emlyn Hughes 57 Former footballer and A Question of Sport captain
28 November Molly Weir 94 actress (Rentaghost)
11 December Christopher Blake 55 actor (Mixed Blessings, That's My Boy)
19 December Richard Best 88 television director (The Avengers)
21 December Michael Forrest 72 actor
26 December Garard Green 80 actor and commentator (Forty Glorious Years)

See also

References

  1. Born, Matt (3 January 2004). "BBC pulls plug on Coca-Cola in charts". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  2. "Shattered". UKGameshows. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  3. Cozens, Claire (14 January 2004). "Experts label C4 show 'harmful'". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  4. "BBC takes Kilroy off air after 'anti-Arab rant'". Digital Spy. 9 January 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  5. "Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern 'almost unrecognisable' in Ministry of Mayhem throwback snap". Woman Magazine. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  6. "Big figures for 'Nip/Tuck' on Sky One". Digital Spy. 14 January 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  7. "The Alan Clark Diaries – BBC Four". BBC Genome. 15 January 2004. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  8. "The Alan Clark Diaries – BBC Four – 19 February 2004". BBC Genome. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  9. "The Alan Clark Diaries – BBC Two England". BBC Genome. 17 March 2004. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  10. "Kilroy quits as BBC presenter". BBC News. 16 January 2004. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  11. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 656–660. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  12. "Emap buys stake in Scottish Radio Holdings". Media Week. 19 January 2004. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  13. Darby, Ian (5 February 2004). "Can a stronger ITV be trusted not to exploit its power?". Brand Republic. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  14. "Later bulletin ends News at Ten". BBC News. 19 January 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  15. Tryhorn, Chris (10 May 2004). "ITV buys GMTV stake from SMG". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  16. "Entertainment | Five Coronation Street stars axed". BBC News. 5 February 2004. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  17. Gibson, Owen (4 February 2004). "UKTV launches set to raise hackles". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  18. "Channel 5 drops Terry and Gaby". BBC News. 4 February 2004. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  19. "Five Coronation Street stars axed". BBC News. 5 February 2004. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
  20. "McFadden named TV's jungle queen". BBC News. 10 February 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  21. "First chance to be a Lottery EuroMillionaire". The Western Mail. Trinity Mirror. 6 February 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  22. Pile, Stephen (14 February 2004). "Now they're thinking outside the box". The Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  23. "'Reality' hits the ground walking". BBC News. 17 February 2004. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  24. Deans, Jason (23 February 2004). "Five's reality show struggles". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  25. "Channel 4 and Five discuss merger". BBC News. 27 February 2004. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  26. "Diana's ex wins reality TV show". Middlesbrough Evening Gazette. Trinity Mirror. 6 March 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  27. "Back To Reality winner Hewitt arrested". Digital Spy. 8 March 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  28. Shelley, Darren (8 March 2004). "Redesigned look and new channels for UKTV". Digital Spy. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  29. "Kelly actress leaving EastEnders". BBC News. 8 March 2004. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  30. "Street trio bid farewell to Kelly". BBC News. 14 March 2004. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  31. "Matthew Kelly to quit Stars In Their Eyes". Liverpool Echo. Trinity Mirror. 12 March 2004. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  32. Callan, Jessica; Simpson, Eva; Hedley, Caroline (23 March 2004). "3am: Cat Deeley". The Mirror. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  33. "Actor Soul angry over documentary". BBC News. 16 March 2004. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  34. "'The Apprentice' coming to UK". Digital Spy. 18 March 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  35. "Eccleston is new Doctor Who". BBC News. 22 March 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  36. "BBC Two controller leaves for US". BBC News. 29 March 2004. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  37. "ITV kicks 'On the Ball' into touch". Western Mail. Trinity Mirror. 2 April 2004. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  38. Hyland, Ian (4 April 2014). "Pat And Mo: Ashes To Ashes". Sunday Mirror. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  39. Shelley, Jim (6 April 2004). "Shelleyvision: Pat and Big Mo: the burly years". Daily Mirror. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  40. "Michael Grade is new BBC chairman". BBC News. 2 April 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  41. "Bad Girl lands feisty Street role". BBC News. 7 April 2004. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  42. "Hawking – BBC Two England – 13 April 2004". BBC Genome. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  43. "TV bid to find UK's 'Poll Idol'". BBC News. 15 April 2004. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  44. Oakes, Keily (20 April 2004). "BBC Two's 40 years on air". BBC News. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  45. "Cowell reveals new talent search". BBC News. 23 April 2004. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  46. "Father of two wins £1m TV jackpot". BBC News. 24 April 2004. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  47. "Parkinson takes chat show to ITV". BBC News. 26 April 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  48. "EastEnders rapped over rape scene". BBC News. 27 April 2004. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  49. "Concern over rape in EastEnders". BBC News. 1 June 2004. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  50. "TV actress Ash stable in hospital". BBC News. 2 May 2004. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  51. "TV's Ash 'making good progress'". BBC News. 3 May 2004. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  52. "TV's Ash hails 'miracle' recovery". BBC News. 25 July 2004. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  53. "End of an era for Parkinson show". BBC News. 8 May 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  54. "BBC Four chief moves to BBC Two". BBC News. 14 May 2004. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  55. "Strictly Come Dancing – BBC One London – 15 May 2004". BBC Genome. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  56. "Teenage singer Ashlea Pearson is looking forward to a career in showbusiness, despite failing to win a public vote in a TV talent contest". The Journal. Trinity Mirror. 17 May 2004. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  57. "Tycoon Sugar heads reality show". BBC News. 19 May 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  58. "Bashir quits ITV for US news show". BBC News. 19 May 2004. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  59. "BBC Press Office: Biographies – Mark Thompson". Archived from the original on 23 April 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
  60. "Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper". BBC News. 24 May 2004. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
  61. "Two towns pioneer digital TV". BBC News. 26 May 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  62. Angelique Chrisafis. "Omagh film stirs up pain of atrocity | UK news". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  63. "Entertainment | Friends finale draws record 8.6m". BBC News. 29 May 2004. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  64. "EastEnders returns to US screens". BBC News. 4 June 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  65. Stringer, David (5 June 2004). "Unwanted Kitten evicted by Brother". The Journal. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  66. "BBC Four – 5 June 2004". BBC Genome. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  67. "BBC Four – 6 June 2004". BBC Genome. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  68. Button, Simon (30 May 2004). "As Leanne Battersby is set to return to Coronation Street, actress Jane Danson, 25, talks belly-dancing and being 'drunk and disorderly'". Sunday Mirror. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  69. Douglas, Torin (10 June 2004). "What Sky's free digital deal means". BBC News. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  70. "The Prisoner – BBC Four – 11 June 2004". BBC Genome. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  71. "Police called in to Big Brother". BBC News. 17 June 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  72. "Mark Thompson arrival". BBC Press Office. BBC. 22 June 2004. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  73. "Top 20 shows of 2004". London Evening Standard. 14 January 2005. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  74. Douglas, Torin (22 January 2012). "Tracking 30 years of TV's most watched programmes". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  75. Deans, Jason (25 June 2012). "TV ratings – 24 June: England's Euro 2012 exit to Italy pulls in 20 million". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  76. "Channel 4's 25-year Anniversary" (PDF). Channel 4. 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  77. Tryhorn, Chris (1 July 2004). "Andy Duncan's in-tray". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  78. "Kaplinsky wins TV dancing contest". BBC News. 4 July 2004. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  79. "Stars line up for second 'Strictly Come Dancing'". Digital Spy. 5 July 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  80. "Cha-cha-champs; Nat & Bren win Come Dancing". Sunday Mirror. Trinity Mirror. 4 July 2004. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  81. "Question Time – 8 July 2004". BBC News. 7 July 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  82. Utley, Tom (16 July 2004). "The BNP is thoroughly nasty, so why did 750,000 people vote for it?". London: The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 16 April 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  83. "Going undercover in the BNP". BBC. 15 July 2004. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  84. "BNP leader charged with race hate". BBC News. 6 April 2005. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  85. "BBC Four – 18 July 2004". BBC Genome. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  86. "Nadia triumphs in Big Brother 5". BBC News. 7 August 2004. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  87. "The Miller Family". BBC Press Office. BBC. 8 August 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  88. "EastEnders scripts feared stolen". BBC News. 11 August 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  89. "Five leapfrogs blockbusters' pay window". C21Media. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  90. "FilmFour Freeview Weekend". Digital Spy. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  91. Waters, Darren (31 August 2004). "Entertainment | Cowell plans life after Pop Idol". BBC News. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  92. Cummins, Fiona (4 September 2004). "Fix-Factor; Simon Cowell coaches wannabes to fight back Louis Walsh has to axe singers he managed". The Mirror. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  93. "The best of Question Time". BBC News. 4 August 2004. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  94. Jason Deans. "Corrie star to leave after 30 years | Media". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  95. "Disney plans Freeview TV channel". BBC News. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  96. "EastEnders wins six awards at Inside Soap Awards 2004". BBC Press Office. BBC. 27 September 2004. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  97. "ITV And Warner Bros. International Television Distribution Enter Licensing Agreement in the UK". Warner Bros. 28 September 2004. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  98. "Five snaps up ITV's Trisha show". BBC News. 1 October 2004. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  99. "One Night with Barry Manilow – BBC One – 2 October 2004". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  100. "The Apprentice – BBC Two England – 4 October 2004 – BBC Genome". Genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  101. Shelley, Darren (13 October 2004). "BBC, ITV, C4 offer Audio Description on Sky". Digital Spy. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  102. "Farewell to EastEnders' Ferreiras". BBC News. 13 October 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  103. "Sky launches 'freesat' digital TV". BBC News. 21 October 2004. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  104. "James Bond on TV – Movies". MI6 – The Home of James Bond 007. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  105. "Classic Question Times". BBC News. 20 February 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  106. ' "Arafat report 'broke BBC rules, BBC 25 November 2005". BBC News. 25 November 2005. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  107. "ITV launches free digital channel". BBC News. 1 November 2004. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  108. "ITV3 to launch on Sky tonight". Broadcast. 1 November 2004. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  109. "Dirty Den actor leaves EastEnders". BBC News. 6 November 2004. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
  110. Howlett, Paul (13 November 2004). "The week's best films". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  111. "Brookside creator's Channel 4 bid". BBC News. 15 November 2004. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  112. "Merger off for Channel 4 and Five". BBC News. 17 November 2004. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  113. Lennon, Amanda (19 November 2004). "Band Aid 20 debut brings in 13.5m viewers". Media Week. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  114. "Elderly 'need digital TV funds'". BBC News. 24 November 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  115. Green, Kris (20 November 2004). "Family Affairs spoilers: 2000th Episode". Digital Spy. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  116. "Top of the Pops leaves BBC One". BBC News. 29 November 2004. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  117. "Villages tune in to digital trial". BBC News. 1 December 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  118. Deans, Jason (2 December 2004). "BBC2 to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  119. "Busted scoop Record of the Year". BBC News. 4 December 2004. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  120. "Joe Pasquale crowned king of the jungle". Digital Spy. 6 December 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  121. Briggs, Caroline (7 December 2004). "Text vote problems hit ITV show". BBC News. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  122. "Steve voted The X Factor winner". BBC News. 11 December 2004. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  123. "EastEnder crowned ballroom champ". BBC News. 11 December 2004. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  124. "BBC Sports Personality: The winners". BBC Sport. BBC. 12 December 2004. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  125. "Kelly Holmes is Sports Personality of the Year". BBC Press Office. BBC. 12 December 2004. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  126. "Potter makes BBC Christmas debut". BBC News. 24 November 2004. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  127. "BBC hits back over film criticism". BBC News. 20 December 2004. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  128. "BBC wins Christmas ratings fight". BBC News. 26 December 2004. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  129. "Pride – BBC One London – 27 December 2004". BBC Genome. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  130. "BBC One London – 31 December 2004". BBC Genome. BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  131. "What the Papers Say in pictures". The Guardian. 29 May 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  132. "Holby City – an oral history by the show's stars and creators". Digital Spy. 29 March 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  133. Rodger, James (23 March 2023). "My Parents Are Aliens cast reunite after 17 years as fans left emotional". BirminghamLive. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  134. Barnes, Anthony; Bloomfield, Steve (30 May 2004). "Jack Rosenthal, writer of TV's greatest drama hits, dies aged 72". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2009.

External links

(2003 ←)   2004 in television   (2005 →)
Category: